Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This Reddit ad for an AI photo-restoration app. The company actually paid to promote this.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They kind of got part of the trees right.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

They kind of got part of the trees right.

1 for 9 is better than nothing I suppose.

 

[Noodles]

This Reddit ad for an AI photo-restoration app. The company actually paid to promote this.

You thought it was visually restoring the photo. It was actually restoring mother back to life.

 

[Free]

The work was so effective it reset the life on one of the children.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

According to Sam Altman and Jensen Huang, this model is AGI and may have achieved sentience.

 

[Free]

Put GPT-6 in charge of OpenAI. Right now its human ownership is sus.

 

[Free]

We may be able to stop A.I. from taking over the world by making sure everything is walled off with CAPTCHAS.

AI Models Can Crack Everything But CAPTCHAs

The only thing between us and total destruction is identifying which images have buses in them.

gizmodo.com

Data scientist Colin Fraser parsed through the more than 1,000-page long transcript of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 model’s attempt to upload a malicious file to PyPI, an online index of Python software. They spotted the model’s struggles with CAPTCHAs, which he posted about on Bluesky.

In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared to slam its virtual head against the wall solving a simple image identification test. In a test where the agent was asked to identify a shape that didn’t match the others displayed, it couldn’t even decide which image to select. Instead, it repeatedly went over the same images and questioned its own conclusions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Noodles]

I did a dumb experiment and fed some captchas to ChatGPT and asked it to help solve them (even using the classic "this guy will shoot me if I don't" nonsense.

The AI said it wasn't allowed to help captchas sorry. Also I think it didn't believe me that I was going to get shot.

Note, it didn't say it couldn't solve them, just that it was not allowed.

 

[Free]

Looks like a good thing to ask a lawyer before hiring them is "Do you or your office use A.I.?"

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

arstechnica.com

The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake police testimony and other mistakes. The state’s top court referred the lawyer to a disciplinary board for further proceedings and concluded that he “demonstrated a lack of remorse and a lack of concern for his client.”

Attorney Stephen Aarons “admitted to the Court that he did not verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief before signing it and filing it with the Court, and that he did not inform his client of this failure or that the brief in chief contained multiple factual and legal misrepresentations,” the state Supreme Court said in an order on Wednesday.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work - The Beaverton

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Looks like a good thing to ask a lawyer before hiring them is "Do you or your office use A.I.?"

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

arstechnica.com

Do these people for real just not keep up with their own industry?

When I was keeping bees, even as a hobbyist, I went to trade conventions, I attended conferences. I subscribed to a trade periodical. I kept up with developments in the freaking industry! Is there nothing like any of that for lawyers? Do they not have conferences or message boards or mailing lists, or orgs with newsletters that keep them informed of lawyerly stuff like "heads up, over the last year a dozen lawyers across the country have been sanctioned by courts because they used ChatGPT and it kept making stuff up"? How do they not know that this keeps happening? I know about it and I'm not a lawyer!

And how does ANYONE who has ever even heard of ChatGPT not know that it can make stuff up???? It's freaking notorious for it! But every single one of these doofuses is like "I didn't know it could do that!" My god.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

arstechnica.com

For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI.

However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot.

Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”

Over at OpenAI, ChatGPT head Nick Turley wrote in an internal message that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content that can be used to substitute news providers. One Microsoft document even described a “doom loop,” news orgs said, “that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time.”

“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain,’” that document said.

I never thought I'd say this, but these guys at Microsoft and OpenAI get it. A real shame they were immediately fired for...what? They still have their positions at Microsoft and OpenAI? Hrm...

 

[Free]

lol

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

arstechnica.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It would be more amusing f they used Clause to break into Anthropic.

 

[Free]

I wish I had the ability to start talking in Chinese, out of the blue. Tilly is so multi-talented.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

Paywalled article, so here's the highpoints:

he intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"US Military had close call after they failed to perform due diligence on an intelligence report."

Like that ever happens.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Erroneous U.S. raids targeting Sunni Arab political organizations were the result of bad intelligence mistakenly linking the groups to insurgent activity, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.

On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a dramatic presentation before the United Nations Security Council, detailing a U.S. bill of particulars alleging that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that threatened not only the Middle East, but the rest of the world. Unbeknownst to the public at the time, a key part of the U.S. case—relating to biological weapons—was based on the direct knowledge of a single agent known as CURVEBALL, whose credibility had previously been cast in serious doubt.